Protecting data for your business is crucial and having a good backup strategy is a big part of that. Most businesses rely on magnetic tape cartridges to make copies of their data, but as technology advances and data centers get larger by leaps and bounds, some magnetic media types can become inadequate very quickly and find themselves becoming obsolete in just a few years. Thankfully though, advances in magnetic tape cartridges have also been keeping up with escalating data storage needs.

Take for example Hitachi Maxell announcing their latest breakthrough in magnetic tape cartridge technology with a tape system that can store a whopping amount of data to the tune of 50 terabytes. Developed in conjunction with the Tokyo Institute of Technology this new super-high density nanometer-sized magnetic tape has a capacity that is 33 times more than an Ultrium 5 magnetic cartridge (pictured right) and is the biggest capacity for magnetic tape cartridges on the planet.

That is until the next big magnetic tape cartridge breakthrough comes along.